30 horses saved from slaughterhouse, now resting in Colorado sanctuaryCavel had been the last operating horse slaughterhouse in the country after a separate court ruling recently shut down the only two others, both in Texas. So the supplier contacted the Humane Society after the ruling, which stemmed from a suit filed by the organization against the USDA, said Nancy Perry, the U.S. Humane Society's vice president of government affairs. Perry likened the eventual deal to "negotiating a hostage situation."
"I think, he said something like, 'Well, what am I going to do now with these horses?' And I said, 'Well, they deserve to be rescued, and we'd be happy to deal with that,' " Perry said. "We've never heard of this before where horses were in place to be slaughtered inside a plant and found a way to be rescued after that."
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